I found this wonderful piece from the late Isaac Asimov in Dan Ariely’s excellent Predictably Irrational blog.
Here is what Asimov had to say about believing in data… "Don’t you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don’t you believe in telepathy? [...]
[cross posted at FASTforward blog]
A dozen years ago, at the height of the dotcom boom, Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen published The Innovator’s Dilemma. It started from a simple observation that transformative innovations that reshaped competitive landscapes and created new industries almost invariable came from new organizations. Conventional wisdom held that this was a [...]
The Future of Management, Hamel, Gary
Gary Hamel has been an astute observer of organizations and management for several decades now. For all the reasons that seemed to make sense at the time, this book sat on my shelf for a while before I got to it. Based on the current state of the [...]
Wouldn’t the world truly be a better place if it did work like a musical? Who doesn’t appreciate a crowd breaking into spontaneous song and dance? Hat tip to Judy Breck of Smart Mobs for point this out.
Tagged FlashmobSuppose you buy the notion that management is fundamentally an oral culture and analytics a literate one (see Part 1). How does that influence how you manage analytics? How can you take full advantage of technology?
In an oral culture, what you can think is limited to what you can remember and tell–without visual aids. Oral [...]
Have you ever wondered what’s behind the conflict between geeks and suits? Sure, they think differently, but what, exactly, does that mean? A Jesuit priest who passed away in 2003 at the age of 90 may hold one interesting clue.
Walter Ong published a slim volume in 1982 titled "Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing [...]
Paula Thornton, my friend and co-blogger at FASTforward, tweeted the following this morning
which reminded me of a little constrained exercise I did back in February. That exercise started with this tweet
and a blog post that generated some fun discussion.
What I didn’t do was publish the final list of C-words that were ultimately [...]
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. Hat tip to Annabelle Mark who is a constant source of this type of material
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
The answer by one student was so ‘profound’ that the professor shared it with colleagues, via [...]
1000 Times Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:00:00 GMT
We live in complicated times. We’re all trying to make sense of what is going on. That sense making isn’t made any easier by lazy writing and thinking. Actually, I don’t think this is a matter of deliberate efforts to mislead [...]
Tagged BII’m just now on the tail end of dealing with accumulated bitrot in my Windows Vista tablet PC that is my primary computing environment. Most of it has gone smoothly, although the process can be tedious. Why you should need to reinstall the OS at periodic intervals remains a mystery to me.
Most of my [...]
